Ibex on a PIII?

[Eberhard Roloff]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/10/29 Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi at gmx.de>:
>> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> 2008/10/29 Nigel Ridley <nigel at prayingforisrael.net>:
>>>> I've got this oldish PIII 650Mhz with 678 MB ram (3x256) -- will it run Intrepid Ibex OK
>>>> (obviously without all the 'Desktop Effects')?
>>>>
>>>> Blessings,
>>>>
>>>> Nigel
>>>>
>>> I have installed Kubuntu Hardy on a 1.4Hz P4 machine with 512MB RAM
>>> and it ran well. Memory seemed to be the bottleneck, not CPU.  Your
>>> case is a bit more extreme, though, and I don't think that you will be
>>> able to run OOo or Firefox with many extensions. Try it and let us
>>> know how goes it.
>>>
>> I do not get that. When RAM is the bottleneck, 768 MB (3x 256) will be
>> 50% better than 512. ;-)
>>
> 
> That means that I would have preferred a machine with more RAM and
> less CPU, like his machine has.
Fully agreed.
> 
>> And indeed Linux responds far better to more RAM than to more CPU Mhz.
>>
>> I for one would way prefer the 768MB/650Mhz (possibly extended to 4x
>> 256) over a 1.4Ghz, restricted to 512MB.
>>
>> With a 1,4Ghz machine, beefed up to more RAM, this is an entirely
>> different matter.
>>
> 
> 
> In any case, there are other important differences between P3 and P4
> besides speed. Take the L-* cache for instance. Measured in kilobytes
> on the P3.
> 
> 
agreed. But I understood that we are not talking about a sophisticated 
server, serving data to a huge number of users. I thought that it was a 
plain old desktop for boring Office work. For this imho the 650 will do 
ok, given a slim windows manager and a sufficient amount of RAM.

regards
Eberhard